Question

I use IDEA 11, updated to its latest version. I opened an Eclipse project in IDEA, and the text color of some folders and files are light-brown colored, while others are black as normal.

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I tried rebuilding the project, but it did not help. What do the different colors mean?

Answer 1

These colors represent the file status

Brown – Unknown – File exists locally, but is not in the repository,
and is not scheduled for adding.

Black – up to date

File Status Highlights – http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/file-status-highlights.html

Refreshing Status – http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/refreshing-status.html